 | Gilbert White - 1833 - 338 pages
...Georg. WHEN day, declining, sheds a milder gleam, What time the May-fly* haunts the pool or stream ; When the still owl skims round the grassy mead, What...adown the vale, And listen to the vagrant cuckoo's f tale ; To hear the clamorous curlew J call his mate, Or the soft quail his tender pain relate ; *... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1834 - 392 pages
...about six in the evening, and diet about eleven at night, determining the date of its fly state in When the still owl skims round the grassy mead, What...vagrant cuckoo's* tale; To hear the clamorous curlew f call his mate, Or the soft quail his tender pain relate ; To see the swallow sweep the dark'ning... | |
 | 1835 - 542 pages
...EVENING WALK. WHEN day declining sheds a milder gleam, "What time the May-fly haunts the pool or stream; When the still Owl skims round the grassy mead, What...Curlew call his mate. Or the soft Quail his tender tale relate ; To see the Swallow skim the dark'ning plain, Belated, to support her infant train ; To... | |
 | 1835 - 538 pages
...day declining sheds a milder gleam, What timu the Slay -fly haunts the pool or stream; When the etill Owl skims round the grassy mead, What time the timorous Hare limps forth to feud; Then be the time to steal adown the vale, And listen to the vagrant Cuckoo's tule; To hear the... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1837 - 680 pages
...GEORG. WHEN day declining sheds a milder gleam, What time the May-fly' haunts the pool or stream ; When the still owl skims round the grassy mead, What time the timorous hare limps forth to feed ; 6 The angler's May-fly, the Ephemera rulgata, LINN, comes forth from its aurelia state, and emerges... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1837 - 678 pages
...GEORG. WHEN day declining sheds a milder gleam, What time the May-fly6 haunts the pool or stream ; When the still owl skims round the grassy mead, What time the timorous hare. limps forth to feed; 6 The angler's May-fly, tlie Ephemera rulgata, LINN, comes forth from its aurelia state, and emerges... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1842 - 342 pages
...Mayfly* haunts the pool or stream ; * The angler's Mayfly, the ephemera vulgata, Linn., come* forth When the still owl skims round the grassy mead, What...the vagrant cuckoo's* tale ; To hear the clamorous curlewf call his mate, Or the soft quail his tender pain relate ; To see the swallow sweep the dark'ning... | |
 | 1842 - 440 pages
...Oeorg. " When day, declining, sheds a milder gleam, What time the Mayfly haunts the pool or stream ; When the still owl skims round the grassy mead, What...hare limps forth to feed. Then be the time to steal ailown the vale, And listen to the vagrant cuckoo's tale ; To hear the clamorous curlew call hie mate,... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1843 - 424 pages
...Georg. WHEN day, declining, sheds a milder gleam, What time the May-fly * haunts the pool or stream ; When the still owl skims round the grassy mead, What...adown the vale, And listen to the vagrant cuckoo's f tale; To hear the clamorous curlew J call his mate, Or the soft quail his tender pain relate ; To... | |
 | Robert Eldridge Aris Willmott - 1849 - 256 pages
...SELBOBNE. When day, declining, sheds a milder gleam, What time the May -fly haunts the pool or stream ; When the still owl skims round the grassy mead, What...mate, Or the soft quail his tender pain relate. To mark the swift, in rapid giddy wing THOMSON. — A faint, erroneous ray, Glanc'd from the imperfect... | |
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WHEN day declining sheds a milder gleam, What time the may-fly haunts the pool or stream; When the still owl skims round the grassy mead, What time the timorous hare limps forth to feed; Then be the time to steal adown the vale, And listen to the vagrant... 
